Last month Morsi ordered the release of 572 individuals in Egypt [JURIST report] who had been convicted by the military. Morsi, Egypt's first elected civilian president, had formed a committee to review all the cases of prisoners who had been sentenced by military courts since the beginning of the revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] last year. Earlier that month Morsi appointing a fact-finding committee to investigate the deaths of protesters [JURIST report] in last year's demonstrations that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive]. A few days after he was sworn in, Morsi issued a decree [JURIST reports] calling the dissolved Egyptian parliament back into session, despite a previous ruling by the country's Supreme Constitutional Court [official website] dissolving it due to its finding that one-third of its members were elected illegally [JURIST report]. The court suspended Morsi's decree two days later, after which Morsi vowed that he would respect the ruling [JURIST reports].